The goal of this NIC is to identify broadly applicable strategies to increase the percentage of Black and Hispanic/Latino men receiving initial teaching certification through educator preparation programs. This webinar will provide an inside look at the path of inquiry guiding the NIC’s overall work and how that process has shaped and changed recruitment and retention of Black, Hispanic, and Latino male teacher candidates at two participating institutions.

Presenters will share and discuss various aspects of their work, including –

The impact of the NIC process on recruitment and retention practice as applied to local contexts for implementation on their campus

Challenges and successes they encountered as they worked to implement NIC-inspired approaches

Feedback from their teacher candidates and partners about how changes in recruitment and retention practice on their campus have influenced teacher candidate outcomes

Suggestions for additional areas of research and change based on their work

My colleague Omar Davis and I will facilitate the webinar, joined by the following NIC participants:

Remaining webinars in the series are planned for early 2017 and will feature the remaining five NIC institutions: Boston University; the University of Arkansas, Little Rock; William Paterson University (NJ); California State University, Fullerton; and Northeastern Illinois University. Each institution’s story will also be shared as a case study in a theoretical framework paper being developed for release in 2017.

Wondering what you missed in the first webinar, which was held October 20 and featured MidAmerica Nazarene University, the University of Connecticut, and Western Kentucky University? You can find its recording and PowerPoint slides here.

Amanda Lester

Thank you very much for your question and interest in the December 14th webinar. Following the event, a recording from the webinar and the presentation PowerPoint slides will be posted in the AACTE Resource Library. You can access the library at: https://secure.aacte.org/apps/rl/resource.php